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12 cm sparks with wimshurst machine

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Uploaded by on Jan 14, 2008

A small video showing my last wimshurst machine generating 12 cm sparks with 56% RH and 30ºC

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  • Nice work. What setting are you using on the video camera? Try the 'night' setting. You will capture more sparks this way.

    Ball with smaller one on top should lean towards (and be slightly below) the single ball. If you do this, it should make longer sparks possible. Is there any special technique you used to record the sound? My camera has a built in microphone, but it makes my sparks sound muffled, instead of a nice crisp crack like yours. Any suggestions? Can you help with this? Thanks.

  • Hello,

    I just use my sony cam to record the video (by the way the model is P47) and audio in automatic settings. I think the sample frequency makes the difference, the older cameras are not suited to get irregular sounds like this. regards, Luiz Alberto

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  • You should put your face in there dude! You'd get so many views.

  • Frickin' Awesome.

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